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Viktor Frankl: Image from Wikipedia

Viktor Frankl: Image from Wikipedia

Viktor Frankl on Man's search for meaning

March 29, 2014
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If you haven't read Man's Search for Meaning, there's only one piece of advice I have to offer: Please do.

Some gems from this life changing piece of work.

"...success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself."

“The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given circumstance.”

“What is to give light must endure burning.” 

“So live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!” 

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about me

I am a co-founder at Founding Fuel, a media and learning platform and co-author of The Aadhaar Effect: Why The World’s Largest Identity Project Matters.

The Polestar Award and Madhu Valluri Awards back my work up.

I am a columnist at Hindustan Times as well. My bylines have appeared at places such as Shaastra from IIT Madras and peer-reviewed journals like ACM that computing professionals look up to.

In earlier assignments, I worked as Managing Editor to set up the India edition of Forbes and as National Business Editor at Times of India.

Then there are my ‘teach- writing’ gigs which is much fun. Doing that with undergrads at St Xaviers College, Mumbai that is one bucket which offers much joy. And then there’s coaching thought leaders in the C-Suite that’s another bucket and is an altogether different ball game. It’s both challenging and sobering.

If you’ve wrapped your head around the idea that writing is a lifeskill, connect with me.


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